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Windows 2000 was my favorite version of the OS. I kept it running far longer than I should reasonably have. Thanks for giving me another reason to fire it up!
Same... XP was almost as good because it was basically the same thing, except for its ugly skin. But even if Windows 2000 would make a come back, I would not switch back to Microsoft because they would probably incorporate their newest tracking methods.
Otherwise sweet memories. I used Win 2K as a workstation at the time. Loved it.
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I completely agree. People fondly remember XP, but Windows 2000 was peak Windows. It almost looks like a real operating system :)
Why do you think Windows isn’t a real OS? It successfully powers I’d guess hundreds of millions of devices.
I really liked how stable W2k was as a workstation. I could run a bunch of terminals, programs and hardly ever had a crash. Nothing is worse working an outage or deployment and POOF there goes your desktop. This was also around the time you could even run bbwin and themes, and tweak it some for fun. Pretty sure cygwin was also around.
> Why? >> "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm I like this "Why?" "Why not?" attitude. Surprised though that a whole operating system, kernel and all, is dockerised though, especially that the impression of Docker to me is that it is normally everything but the kernel. Edit: I didn't read the QEMU in the name. I won't be…
I thought that quote was so funny, I actually laughed out loud. I've definitely dug into technical challenges way deeper than necessary merely because it felt like a challenge and I wanted the feeling of beating/solving it.
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Same... XP was almost as good because it was basically the same thing, except for its ugly skin. But even if Windows 2000 would make a come back, I would not switch back to Microsoft because they would probably incorporate their newest tracking methods.
You could set XP to look just like 2000.
Is booting windows in a vm something noteworthy in 2021?